Entangled in Fear
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Entangled in Fear

Everyday Terror in Poland, 1944–1947

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Entangled in Fear

Everyday Terror in Poland, 1944–1947

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"Fear is always experienced individually, and few experiences are as personal. There can be no collective fear without individual fear preceding it. A society's fear is born out of the convergence of individual experiences, when dozens, hundreds, thousands, and millions of people are afraid of the same thing at the same time." This is a story about postwar Polish society and its emotions. This is a story of heroes: soldiers, deserters, orphans, and beggars. Now available in English for the first time, Entangled in Fear reveals the broken society where bandits, hunger, bombs, Russia, and countless other threats had an immense influence on Poles as they struggled through the wreckage caused by World War II. Journalist and historian Marcin Zaremba uses sociology, psychology, and history to explore collective fear in official documents and the personal papers of those who were left to survive in postwar Poland. In doing so, he reveals how fear of famine and epidemics, sexual violence and looting, joblessness and invasion led directly to collective action on the part of Poles.

A groundbreaking work, Entangled in Fear challenges the reader to consider how emotions have shaped human history and how a more serious engagement with emotions is key to a fuller understanding of the past.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9780253063113
Topic
Geschichte
Subtopic
Europäische Geschichte

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Before There Was Fear
  7. 1. In the Labyrinth of Fear
  8. 2. Fear in Interwar Culture: The Bolsheviks and “Jewish Communism”
  9. 3. The Trauma of a World War: Psychosocial Effects of the Second World War
  10. 4. In the Beginning Was Chaos
  11. 5. “Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire”: The Dreaded Red Army
  12. 6. The Demobilized
  13. 7. Looting Fever
  14. 8. Outlaws: “The Dishonored Soldiers’ Peasant War”
  15. 9. It Was More than Just Travel Nerves
  16. 10. The Politics of Fear
  17. 11. The Phantoms of Transience
  18. 12. The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Hunger, High Prices, and Infectious Diseases
  19. 13. Ethnic Phobias and Violence
  20. Conclusion: “The Boogeyman”
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index
  23. About the Author